When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Friday, November 30, 2007

A self-inflicted wound on my foot, a couple of days after the fact in Borgerhout.1648 (+) Philosopher and Women’s Rights defender Sor Juana originally Ines de la Cruz de Asbaje y Ramirez, is born in San Miguel Mepantla, Mexico.1667 (+) Writer Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin, Ireland.1774 (-) Highwayman Jack Rann aka 16-String Jack, is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.1810 (+) Gunsmith Oliver Winchester is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.1824 (-) Forger Henry Fauntleroy Esq. is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1835 (+) Writer Mark Twain originally Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is born in Florida, Missouri, USA.1874 (+) Politician Winston Churchill is born in Woodstock, United Kingdom.1885 (-) Wife-Murderer Robert Goodale is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Norwich Castle, United Kingdom.1903 (-) Murderer Tom Horn is executed by hanging.On the scaffold he shouted: “Ain’t losing your nerve ar you, Joe?”.1908 (x) 154 Die in coal mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, USA.1918 (+) Actor Efrem Zimbalist is born in New York, New York, USA.1923 (-) Marxist and Labour leader John MacLean dies of pneumonia at the age of 44 in Pollockshaws, Glasgow, United Kingdom.Broken in health, but not in spirit.1925 (-) Murderer W. R. Lloyd is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.1936 (+) Anarchist Abie Hoffman is born in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1937 (+) Cyclist Tom Simpson is born in Haswell, Durham, United Kingdom.1937 (+) Filmmaker Ridley Scott is born in South Shields, United Kingdom.1940 (+) Viennese Aktionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler is born in Vienna, Austria.1946 (+) SPK and RAF 2nd Generation member Ralf Baptist Friedrich is born in Landsweiler-Reden, Germany.1953 (-) Artist Francis Picabia dies at the age of 74 in Paris, France.1955 (+) Musician Billy Idol originally William Michael Broad, is born in Middlesex, United Kingdom.1956 (-) Rapist and murderer James Bowman is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.1957 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, attacks an unidentified 29-year-old nurse in Monte à l’Abbé, Jersey.1957 (+) IRA-member Thomas McElwee originally Tomas Mac Giolla Bhuidhe, is born in Bellaghy, Londonderry, Ireland.1962 (-) Murderer Lowell Andrews is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas, USA.1962 (-) Oskar Seidel is shot dead by Klaus Gosmann aka Der Mittagsmörder, in Neuhaus, Sparkasse, Germany.1981 (-) Jim Griffin is handcuffed and severely beaten up by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, in Chicago, North Dearborn Street, Illinois, USA.He survived.1987 (-) Writer James Baldwin dies of esophageal cancer at the age of 63 in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.1989 (-) Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is blown to pieces in his armoured Mercedes-Benz by Rote Armee Fraktion at the age of 59 in Bad Homborg, Germany.1989 (x) 37-year-old RAF member Verena Becker is released from prison in Willich, Germany.1994 (-) Situationist writer and filmmaker Guy Debord commits suicide by a shot through the heart at the age of 62 in Champot, France.1994 (x) 23-year-old Rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac, is shot fwice in the head, twice in the groin and once in the arm by two unidentified robbersdies of respiratory failure in Manhattan, Quad Recording Studios, New York, USA.1996 (-) Musician Herbert Khaury aka Tiny Tim, dies at the age of 64 in Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, USA.While playing "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" at a Gala Benefit at The Woman's Club of Minneapolis he suffered a heart attack on stage. He was led out by his wife, Susan Marie Gardner, who asked him if he was okay. Tim responded, "No, I'm not!" Those were to be his final words. He collapsed shortly thereafter and was rushed to a hospital where he died after doctors tried to resuscitate him for an hour and fifteen minutes.1997 (-) Poet, novelist and performance artist Kathy Acker dies of breast-cancer at the age of 50 in Tijuana, Mexico.2001 (-) Murderer John Rose is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Two microphones at a free-mic installation in Witte de With in Rotterdam.741 (-) Pope Gregorius III dies in Rome, Italy.1268 (-) Pope Clementius IV originally Guy Faucoi le Gros, dies in Viterbo, Italy.1643 (-) Composer Claudio Monteverdi dies at the age of 76 in Venice, Italy.1803 (-) Child-Murderer Caleb Adams is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in Windham, Connecticut, USA.1803 (+) Physicist Johann Christian Doppler is born in Salzburg, Austria.1826 (-) Highwayman James Boyce from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1826 (-) Highwayman James Goulby from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1826 (-) Highwayman Robert King from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1826 (-) Highwayman George Nicholls from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1826 (-) Highwayman John Robinson from the Spitalfields Gang, is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1859 (+) Serial Killer Jesse Pomeroy aka The Teenage Monster, is born in Charlestown, Massachussets, USA.1880 (-) Murderer Thomas Wheeler is executed by hanging in London, St Alban's Prison, United Kingdom.1881 (-) Murderer Percy Mapleton aka The Chinless Killer, is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Lewes, Maidstone Prison, United Kingdom.1894 (-) Murderer Thomas Richards is executed by hanging in Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom.1924 (-) Composer Giacomo Puccini dies of throat cancer at the age of 65 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.1933 (+) Musician John Mayall is born in Macclesfield, United Kingdom.1933 (+) Pop artist James Rosenquist is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA.1947 (+) Peace activist and founder of ‘Die Grünen’, the German Green Party Petra Kelly is born in Günzburg, Germany.1951 (x) 46-year-old Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, escapes from the State Hospital in Arizona, USA.It’s her fourth escape, she is captured a few hours later.1963 (x) 118 Die in Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 Douglas DC-8 crash in Montreal, St. Therese, Canada.1973 (x) 101 Die in department store fire in Kumamoto, Japan.1974 (x) 40-year-old RAF Leader Ulrike Meinhof Is sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for taking part in the escape of Andreas Baader in 1970 in Berlin, Germany.1975 (-) World Champion Formule 1 Racing, Graham Hill crashes in a Piper Aztec airplane at the age of 46 in London, Arkley Golf Course, United Kingdom.Five more members of his team also die.1981 (-) Actress Natalie Wood originally Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko later Gurdin, commits suicide by drowning at the age of 43 in Santa Catalina Island, California, USA.1983 (x) Serial Killer Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, is arrested while raping an unidentified girl in Bockenheim, Germany.1986 (-) Sandra Lindsay is abducted and chained down by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, 3520 North Marshall Street, Pennsylvania, USA.She survived.1986 (-) Actor Cary Grant originally Alexander Archibald Leach, dies of a stroke at the age of 82 in Davenport, Iowa, USA.1987 (x) 115 Die in Korean Airlines Flight 858 Boeing 707 explosion in Bay of Bengal, Birma.The plane was supposedly sabotaged.1987 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is arrested in Paris, France.1995 (-) Rapist and murderer Anthony Larette is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.1996 (-) Minimal Artist Dan Flavin dies at the age of 63 in Riverhead, New York, USA.1998 (x) Mass Murderer Seth Privacky kills his 50-year-old parents Stephen C. and Linda Privacky, his 78-year-old grandfather John J. Privacky and his 19-year-old brother and his girlfriend Jedediah J. Privacky and April A. Boss in Muskegon, Michigan, USA.2001 (-) Beatle George Harrison aka L’Angelo Misterioso, dies of lung cancer at the age of 58 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

My kind of wiring, piping, plumming and drainage in what's to be a new bathroom installment in our house in Borgerhout.1757 (+) Poet and artist William Blake is born in London, England.1820 (+) Philosopher Friedrich Engels is born in Barmen, Prussia, Germany.1881 (+) Writer Stefan Zweig is born in Vienna, Austria.1881 (-) Murderer John Simpson is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1882 (-) Murderer Edward Wheatfill is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in York Castle, United Kingdom.1887 (-) Murderer Enoch Wadley is executed by hanging in Gloucester, United Kingdom.1893 (-) Murderer Emanuel Hamar is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1895 (x) Sportsman James Duryea wins the first automobile race, which took place between Chicago and Waukegan in Illinois, USA.1899 (-) Murderer Charles Scott is executed by hanging in Reading Gaol, United Kingdom.1907 (+) Writer Alberto Moravia aka Il Conformista, is born in Rome, Italy.1908 (+) Philosopher Claude Levi-Strauss is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.1911 (-) Murderer Herbert Cooper lies down on the railway track and is decapitated in High Gate, Crouch End, United Kingdom.1937 (-) Raymond Lesobre is shot dead by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, in Saint Cloud, Villa Mon Playsir, France.1942 (x) 492 Die in Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in Boston, Massachussets, USA.1942 (-) Murderess Toni Jo Henry originally Annie Beatrice McQuiston, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA.She killed a man to steal his car and became the first woman executed in the Louisiana electric chair.1943 (+) Musician Randy Newman is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1947 (-) General and WWII hero Philippe Leclerc dies in an airplane crash at the age of 45 in Colomb-Béchar, Algeria.1950 (-) Murderer James Corbett is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1958 (x) 18-year-old Murderer Lowell Andrews shoots his father, mother and sister to become a ‘hired gun’, and inherit the family’s property in Wolcott, Kansas, USA.1962 (-) Murderer James Smith is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1963 (+) Serial Killer Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, is born in Fort-de-France, Martinique.1971 (-) Prime minister Wasfi Tel is assassinated by Black September at the age of 51 in Jordania.1972 (-) Murderer Roger Bontemps is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 36 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, France.1972 (-) Murderer Claude Buffet is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 39 in Paris, Prison de la Santé, France.1976 (x) 44-year-old Harry De La Roche Sr., 51-year-old Mary Jane, 15-year-old Ronald and 12-year-old Eric are shot dead by 18-year-old Mass murderer Harry De La Roche jr. in Montvale, 23 East Grand Avenue, New Jersey, USA.1977 (-) Lauren Wagner is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 18 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.1979 (x) 257 Die in Air New Zealand sightseeing Flight 901 McDonnel-Douglas DC-10-30 crash in Antarctica.It collided with Mount Erebus volcano.1987 (x) 159 Die in South African Airways Flight 295 Boeing 747-244B Combi crash in the Indian Ocean.1994 (-) Serial Killer Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, is beaten to death with a bar from the weight room by fellow-inmate Christopher Scarver, while cleaning the toilets and showers in a maximum security jail at the age of 34 in Portage, Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium, Wisconsin, USA.In the same event also murderer Jesse Anderson was beaten to death.1994 (-) Great Train Robber Buster Edwards commits suicide by hanging at the age of 62 in London, United Kingdom.1997 (x) 72-year-old Politician Margaret Tatcher aka The Iron Lady, resigns as prime minister of Britain in London, United Kingdom.2001 (-) Murderer Xin Baojun is executed at the age of 44 in the N°1 Intermediate People's Court of Beijing, China.He became acquainted with a woman surnamed Zhang via a local marriage agent and later murdered her and stole 3.000 yuan worth of her property.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Yasmine Kherbache at a meeting of the National Artists' Platform in Antwerp. Items discussed at this kind of meetings led to an improved Social Statute for Artists in Belgium in 2003.1701 (+) Astronomer Anders Celsius is born in Uppsala, Sweden.1750 (-) Traitor Thomas Reynolds is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Robber Andrew Ferris is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Forger Joseph Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1843 (+) Victim of Jack the Ripper, Elisabeth Stride-Gustaafsdochter aka Long Liz, is born in Göteborg, Sweden.1877 (-) Murderer James Satchell is executed by hanging in Leicester, United Kingdom.1877 (-) Murderer John Swift is executed by hanging in Leicester, United Kingdom.1877 (-) Murderer John Upton is executed by hanging in Leicester, United Kingdom.1894 (-) Wife-Murderer James Whitehead is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1906 (-) Wife-Murderer Edward Hartigan is executed by hanging at the age of 58 in Knutsford Gaol, United Kingdom.1929 (-) An unidentified man is burned to death by Kurt Tetzner aka The Murderer Who Died Twice, in Ettershausen, Germany.1932 (+) Opposition-leader Benigno Aquino is born in Concepcion, the Fillipines.1934 (-) Gangster George Nelson originally Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face, is shot dead by FBI gunmen at the age of 25 in Barrington, Illinois, USA.FBI agents Herman Hollis and Samuel P. Cowley also die in the shootout.1940 (+) Actor, filmmaker and King of Kung Fu Bruce Lee Siu Loong originally Lee Yuen Kam, aka The Little Dragon, is born in San Francisco, California, USA.1942 (+) Musician Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.1955 (-) Composer Arthur Honegger dies of a heart-attack at the age of 63 in Paris, France.1962 (x) 97 Die in Varig Boeing 707 crash in Lima, Peru.1970 (x) 73-year-old 262nd Pope Paul VI originally Giovanni Battista Montini, is attacked with a knife by artist Mendoza in Manila, the Fillipines.1970 (-) New York mayor George Moscone is shot dead by Dan White at the age of 41 in San Francisco, City Hall offices, California, USA.White claimed to be ‘high on junk food’.1975 (-) Hakim Vitali aka Ved, is drugged, tortured, his neck broken, doused with petrol and set on fire by Charles Sobhraj aka Bad Blood, in Pattaya Beach, Thailand.1980 (-) Darci Fix is shot dead by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, in Portland, Oregon, USA.1980 (x) Unemployed teacher and 50-year-old Mass murderess Priscilla Ford drives her blue Lincoln Continental down a crowded downtown sidewalk, trying to kill as many people as possible. in Reno, Virginia Street, Nevada, USA .She killed seven and injured 23.1981 (-) Actress Lotte Lenya originally Karoline Wilhelmine Blamauer, dies of cancer at the age of 83 in New York, New York, USA.1983 (x) 181 Die in Avianca Boeing 747 crash in Madrid, Spain.1987 (x) 115 Die in Korean Airlines Boeing 707 crash in Birma.The plane was supposedly sabotaged.1987 (-) Geneviève Germond is tortured and killed as eighteenth victim by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 10th, 22 rue Cail, France.1989 (x) 107 Die in Avianca Boeing 727 crash in Bogota, Colombia.The plane was blown up by drug-traffickers.1989 (-) Elisabeth Gibson is is found suffocated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, in Rochester, New York, USA.1994 (x) 233 Die in dance hall fire in Tuxan, China.

Monday, November 26, 2007

On this day, from 16.00 till 18.00hrs (CET), DDV did a program on Radio Centraal in the "Wolkenbreiers" series of Leo Reynders.The program will be based on the entries for that day of the "Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar", which is the basis for this blog.The program will feature exclusive audio clips, music, and spoken word from and about Bruno Hauptmann's innocence, Sallie Ellen Ionesco's "ice pick" transorbital lobotomy, Howard Carter, Jean-Louis Pisuisse"s protest songs, John Holmes and Linda Lovelace, Nutbush cover versions, Heinrich Himmler, The Rolling Stones and many more....Radio Centraal is transmitted on 106,7 FM in Antwerpen. Recently it also available as a "WebStream" on http://streaming.radiocentraal.be.(Use VLCplayer on Mac OSX, Realplayer on Linux or Winamp on Windows to listen to the program on your computer via the Internet.)1899 (+) Murderer and kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann aka The Lindbergh Baby Snatcher, is born in Kamenz, Germany.1909 (+) Writer Eugene Ionesco is born in Slatina, Romania.1922 (x) 48-year-old Archeologist Howard Carter becomes the first man to enter into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt.1924 (+) Artist George Segal is born in New York, New York, USA.1925 (-) King Vajiravudh of Siam Rama VI originally Phra Mongkutklao, dies at the age of 44 in Bangkok, Thailand.1926 (-) Inventor and designer John Browning dies of heart failure at the age of 71 in Herstal, Belgium.1927 (-) Holland’s most famous comedian Jean-Louis Pisuisse and his wife Jenny Gilliams shot dead by Tjakko Kuiper in Amsterdam, Rembrandtplein, the Netherlands.Kuiper was Gilliams' rejected lover, he shot himself through the head after the act.1932 (+) Serial Killer John Wayne Glover aka The North Shore Granny Killer, is born in Midlands, United Kingdom.1933 (x) Kidnapper and murderer Thomas Thurmond and his accomplice John Maurice Holmes are lynched by a raging mob in San Jose, outside Santa Clara County jail, California, USA.Governor James ‘Sunny Jim’ Rolfe applauded while watching the spectacle.1939 (+) Musician Tina Turner originally Annie Mae Bullock, is born within the city limits of Nutbush, Tennessee, USA.1940 (-) Murderer W. Cooper is executed by hanging.1944 (x) 44-year-old Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of all crematoria in the concentration-camps in Berlin, Germany.1950 (-) Writer Hedwig Courths-Mahler originally Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler, dies at the age of 83 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany.1973 (-) Serial Killer Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, is stabbed through the heart by an unidentified inmate at the age of 42 in Walpole State Prison, Massachussets, USA.1976 (-) Donna Demasi is attacked by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.1983 (-) Ilke Rutsch is stabbed to death by Michael Wolpert aka The Strong Sex Drive, at the age of 21 in Babenhausen, Germany.1984 (x) Seventh bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC on the telecommunication systems of a military airfield in Bierset, Namur, Belgium.1986 (-) Josefina Riveira is abducted and chained down by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, in Philadelphia, 3520 North Marshall Street, Pennsylvania, USA.She survived.2004 (-) Writer Arthur Hailey dies of natural causes at the age of 84 in Lyford Cay, Nassau, Bahamas.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

A sign on a door in Borgerhout.1746 (-) Robber Henry Sims is executed by hanging in London, Tyburn Tree, United Kingdom.1819 (-) Robber James Cassidy is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1819 (-) Robber John Henley is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1819 (-) Robber Henry Lovell is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1822 (-) John Holland is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.He was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.1822 (-) William King is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.He was charged with an 'unnatural offence'.1823 (-) Burglar Henry Crisp is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1824 (-) Murderer Joseph Moseley is executed by hanging in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Surrey, United Kingdom.1824 (-) Murderer William Garside is executed by hanging in Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Surrey, United Kingdom.1824 (-) Highwayman Joseph Hayward is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1844 (+) Autombile designer Karl Friedrich Benz is born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1878 (-) Child-Murderer Henry Gilbert is executed by hanging in Great Stukeley Prison, United Kingdom.1881 (+) 261st Pope John XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli aka The Blessed, is born in Sotto Il Monte, Bergamo, Italy.1883 (-) Murderer Thomas Riley is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1895 (+) 8th President of Czechoslowakie Ludvik Svoboda is born in Hroznatin, Hungary.1900 (+) Commander of the Auschwitz concentration-camp Rudolf Höss is born in Baden-Baden, Germany.1901 (+) Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is born in Poznan, Poland.1906 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Fritz Wittig is born in Kassel, Germany.1917 (-) Celestine Lavie-Buisson is killed by Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, at the age of 46 in Gambais, France.1938 (+) Spree Killer Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, is born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.1938 (-) Murderer George Pingley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Virginia, USA.1946 (+) Serial Killer Richard Francis Cottingham aka The Midtown Torso Killer, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.1964 (-) Margaret McGowan aka Frances Brown aka Ann Sutherland aka Susan Edwards aka Frances Quinn, is found naked and dead as victim by Jack the Stripper at the age of 21 in London, United Kingdom.1966 (x) 84 Die in Tabso Iljoeshin 18 crash in Bratislava, Czechoslowakia.1967 (-) Artist Ossip Zadkine dies at the age of 77 in Paris, France.1970 (-) Writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide by Harakiri at the age of 45 in the headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self Defense Forces, Tokyo, Japan.The act was to end in his ritual decapitation by Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita. Morita, who was rumored to have been Mishima's lover, was unable to perform the decapitation properly: after several failed attempts, he allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu Koga, to finish the job. After Mishima was decapitated, Morita also attempted to commit seppuku and was beheaded by Koga.1974 (-) Singer songwriter Nick Drake commits suicide by an overdose of Tryptizol at the age of 26 in Tanworth, United Kingdom.1975 (-) Julia Goncalves is shot dead and violated by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 29 in Nogent-sur-Oise, Parc Hébert, France.1981 (+) Victim of Marc Dutroux Laetitia Delhez is born in Belgium.1987 (-) Finalteri is attacked and tortured by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 87 in Paris 10th, rue d’Alsace, France.1987 (-) Rachel Cohen is attacked and tortured by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 79 in Paris 10th, 46 rue du Château d’eau, France.1993 (x) 10-year-old Robert Thompson and 10-year-old Jon Venables are sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for killing 3-year-old James Bulger in Preston, Merseyside, United Kingdom.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

My installation of "Perpetrators of Death" in the corridors of a psychiatric centre in Sleidinge.1632 (+) Philosopher Baruch de Spinoza is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.1740 (-) Murderer William Duell is executed by hanging at the age of 16 in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.His body was taken to Surgeons' Hall for anatomy, where he was seen to move slightly, he regained consciousness and said he had had a bad dream. He was sent to Newgate Prison again.1740 (-) Burglar Thomas Clock is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.1740 (-) Burglar William Meers is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.1740 (-) Burglar Henry Stanton is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.1740 (-) Burglar Eleanor Munoman is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.1784 (+) 12th president of the USA Zachary Taylor is born in Barboursville, Virginia, USA.1864 (+) Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is born in Albi, France.1870 (-) Writer Comte Isidore Ducasse De Lautréamont dies at the age of 24 in Paris, Montmartre, 7 rue de Faubourg, France.1884 (-) Murderer Kay Howarth is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1884 (-) Murderer Harry Swindells is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1897 (+) Gangster Charlie Luciano originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano, is born in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy.1906 (-) Murderer Fred Shephard is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Oregon, USA.1924 (x) 35-year-old Actor and filmmaker Charles Chaplin marries 16-year-old pregnant Lolita McMurray in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico.1926 (-) Florence Monks is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, in Seattle, Washington, USA.1931 (-) FBI-agent Albert Ingle is accidently shot dead when a private detective’s gun fell out of his pocket at the age of 28 in the USA.1944 (+) Poet Jules Deelder is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.1946 (+) Serial Killer Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is born in Burlington, Elisabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers, Vermont, USA.1946 (-) Artist and designer Laszlo Moholo-Nagy dies at the age of 51 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1963 (-) Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald aka The Man Who Shot J.F. Kennedy, shot dead by Jack Ruby at the age of 24 in Dallas, Texas, USA.1969 (x) 26-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Calley is accused of killing 109 South Vietnamese civilians in My Lai in the USA.1971 (x) Hijacker D.B. Cooper jumps from the back of a Northwest Airlines Flight 305 Boeing 727-051 after securing 200.000 $ ransom and four parachutes in Washington, USA.1991 (-) Musician Freddie Mercury originally Farrokh Bulsara, dies of a lung-infection due to AIDS at the age of 45 in London, Kensington, USA.1992 (x) 141 Die in China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crash in Guangdong, China.

Friday, November 23, 2007

The waitresses of the "Happy Forest" restaurant in YangZhen in the second photo I used for my infamous placemat.76 (-) 2nd Pope Linus dies in Rome, Italy.1804 (+) 14th president of the USA Franklin Pierce is born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, USA.1859 (+) Outlaw Billy the Kid originally Henry McCarty aka Henry Antrim aka William Harrison Bonney, is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.1867 (-) Cop Killer William Allen is executed by hanging in Manchester, Salford Prison, United Kingdom.1867 (-) Cop Killer Michael Larkin is executed by hanging in Manchester, Salford Prison, United Kingdom.1867 (-) Cop Killer William Gould aka O’Brien, is executed by hanging in Manchester, Salford Prison, United Kingdom.1876 (+) Composer Manuel De Falla is born in Cadiz, Spain.1877 (-) Murderer Cadwallader Jones is executed by hanging in Dolgellau Prison, Merionetshire, United Kingdom.1877 (-) Murderer John Hill is executed by hanging in Hereford Prison, United Kingdom.1877 (-) Murderer John Williams is executed by hanging in Hereford Prison, United Kingdom.1887 (+) Actor Boris Karloff originally William Henry Pratt, is born in London, Camberwell, United Kingdom.1888 (+) Actor and filmmaker Harpo Marx is born in New York, New York, USA.1890 (+) Artist El Lissitsky is born in Polschinok, Russia.1891 (+) Artist Alexander Rodtschenko is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.1910 (-) Serial Killer Harvey Crippen is executed by hanging at the age of 48 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1932 (-) Murderer Edward Hutchinson is executed by hanging in Oxford, United Kingdom.1933 (+) Composer Krzysztof Penderecki is born in Debica, Poland.1935 (+) Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov is born in Moscow, Russia.1945 (+) Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, is born in Fraserburgh, 47 Academy Road, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom.1953 (x) 27-year-old Pilot Felix Moncia disappears in an F-89C Scorpion jet while chasing an Unidentified Flying Object in Soo Locks, Michigan, USA.He was never seen again.1956 (x) 143 Die in train derailment in Marudaiyar, India.1963 (-) John Kilbride is kidnapped and killed by The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, at the age of 12 in Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom.1963 (-) Joan Graff is raped and strangled as twelfth victim by Albert DeSalvo aka The Boston Strangler, at the age of 23 in Boston, Lawrence, 54 Essex Street, Massachussets, USA.1969 (-) Marielle Archambault is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, in Canada.1975 (-) Writer and politician André Malraux originally André Berger, dies at the age of 74 in Paris, France.1981 (-) Paul Nobbs is attacked by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 19 in London, United Kingdom.He survived.1985 (x) The Abu Nidal Organization hijacks EgyptAir Flight 648 Boeing 737 after take-off in Athens, Greece and landing in Luqa Airport, Malta.As Egypt forces storm the plane, 60 people die in the shootout.1989 (-) June Stott is found suffocated and mutilated by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 30 in Rochester, Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.1990 (-) Writer Roald Dahl dies of myeolodysplastic anaemia at the age of 74 in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.1991 (-) Actor Klaus Kinski originally Nikolausz Gunther Nakszynski, dies at the age of 65 in San Francisco, California, USA.1995 (-) Filmmaker Louis Malle dies of lymphatic cancer at the age of 63 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.1998 (x) Start of new excavations in the area of the house where Serial Killer John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, his mother lived in Chicago, Northwest Side, Illinois, USA.Gacy was executed in 1994.1998 (x) Start of the trial against 39-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, in Zhytomyr, Ukraïne, Russia.2001 (-) Moralist campaigner Mary Whitehouse originally Constance Mary Hutcheson, dies at the age of 91 in Colchester, United Kingdom.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

A plate of "Duck Tongues", a dish I couldn't resist in a duck specialty restaurant in Beijing.1827 (-) Coiner Edward Lowe is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1827 (-) Highwayman Charles Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1827 (-) Robber John Keats is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1827 (-) Robber John Powell is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1853 (+) German ambassador in China Klemens von Ketteler is born in Potsdam, Germany.1869 (+) Writer André Gide is born in Paris, France.1880 (-) Murderer Joseph Distin is executed by hanging in Horfield Gaol, United Kingdom.1883 (-) Catharina Aben is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg at the age of 5 in Leiden, the Netherlands.1890 (+) President of France Charles De Gaulle is born in Lille, France.1898 (+) Airplane pioneer Wiley Post is born in Van Zandt County, Texas, USA.1902 (-) Artillery-engineer Friedrich Krupp commits suicide by a newspaper reporting about a homosexual escapade on Capri at the age of 48 in Essen, Villa Hügel, Germany.1902 (+) General and WWII hero Philippe Leclerc is born in Belloy-Saint-Léonard, France.1910 (-) Wife-Murderer Henry Thompson is executed by hanging in Liverpool, Walton Gaol, United Kingdom.1913 (+) Composer Benjamin Britten is born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, United Kingdom.1916 (-) Writer Jack London originally John Griffith, dies of uremia and morphine-poisoning at the age of 40 in Glen Ellen, California, USA.1932 (+) Actor Robert Vaughn is born in New York, New York, USA.1937 (-) Fritz Frommer is killed by Eugene Weidmann aka The Handsome Devil, at the age of 25 in Paris, La Celle Saint-Cloud, Villa la Voulzie, France.1950 (-) Murderer Norman Goldthorpe is executed by hanging in Yarmouth, United Kingdom.1958 (+) Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1958 (-) Murderer Richard Jordan is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1963 (-) 35th president of the USA John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald at the age of 46 in Dallas, Dealey Plaza, Texas, USA.1963 (-) Writer Aldous Huxley dies of an LSD-overdose, trying to ease his pain due to cancer at the age of 69 in Hollywood, California, USA.1974 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his son Mike raid several houses and rape a woman in Lindenwold, New Jersey, USA.1980 (-) Actress Mae West dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1993 (-) Writer Anthony Burgess dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in London, St. John’s Wood, United Kingdom.1994 (-) Murderer Warren Bridge is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1995 (x) Serial Killer, wife of Frederick West aka The House of Horrors Murderer, Rosemary West is convicted to life imprisonment in Birmingham, United Kingdom.She was accused of helping her husband in 10 murders.1997 (-) INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence commits suicide by hanging at the age of 37 in Sydney, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New South Wales, Australia.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Installing my "Perpetrators of Death" in the corridors of a psychiatric centre in Sleidinge.1694 (+) Writer François Voltaire originally François-Marie Arouet, is born in Paris, France.1695 (-) Composer Henry Purcell dies of tuberculosis at the age of 36 in London, United Kingdom.1729 (-) Highwayman William Gordon is executed by hanging in Tyburn Tree, London, United Kingdom.Before the execution a Dr. Chovot secretly opened Gordon's windpipe, afterwards Gordon was cut down and rushed to a hospital where a vein was opened and the blood ran freely. Gordon groaned and died.1811 (-) Poet, dramatist and writer Heinrich von Kleist commits suicide by a gunshot at the age of 34 in Potsdam, on the shore of the Wannsee, Germany.He first shot Henriette Vogel, with whose intellectual accomplishments he was captivated.1816 (-) Murderer Robert Smith is executed by hanging in Wapping Execution Dock, United Kingdom.1816 (-) Murderer Charles Feeney is executed by hanging in Wapping Execution Dock, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Highwayman Isaac Celebia is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Highwayman George Smith is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Thief William Gorton is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Thief William Harding is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.He had stolen a sheep.1821 (-) Forger Thomas Tupley is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Forger Edward Sparrow is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1821 (-) Forger Josiah Cadman is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1827 (-) Murderer Levi Kelley is executed by hanging in Cooperstown, New York, USA.During the public execution a temporary wooden stand, holding hundreds of spectators, collapsed and 2 people were killed.1849 (+) ‘Brother’ of Lou Salomé and rival of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Ree is born in Bartelshagen, Germany.1854 (+) 258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, is born in Genova, Italy.1877 (-) Murderer Thomas Grey is executed by hanging in Nottingham, United Kingdom.1881 (-) Murderer Alfred Gough is executed by hanging in Derby, United Kingdom.1887 (-) Murderer Joseph Morley is executed by hanging at the age of 17 in Chelmsford, United Kingdom.1888 (-) Murderers Jake and Joe Tobler is executed by hanging in Wichita, Kansas, USA.1898 (+) Artist René Magritte is born in Lessines, Hainaut, Belgium.1899 (-) Murderer George Nunn is executed by hanging in Ipswich, United Kingdom.1929 (-) Aloïs Ortner is attacked by Kurt Tetzner aka The Murderer Who Died Twice, in Ingolstadt, Germany.He survived.1941 (-) Murderess Juanita Spinelli aka The Duchess, is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 52 in San Quentin, California, USA.She’s the first woman to die in the San Quentin Gas Chamber.1943 (+) Serial Killer Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, is born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.1957 (-) Murderer David Taylor is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Sing Sing Prison, New York, New York, USA.1960 (-) Murderer Oscar Wimis is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.1963 (-) Murderer Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, dies at the age of 73 in Springfield, Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Missouri, USA.1968 (x) 35-year-old Artist Yoko Ono has a miscarriage.1968 (x) 21-year-old Actress Marianne Faithfull has a miscarriage.1969 (-) James Sharp is presumably slashed to death by The Manson Family at the age of 15 in Thetan Manor Scientology commune, California, USA.1974 (x) 20 die in two bomb-attacks by the Terrorist Movement Provisional Irish Republican Army on pubs in Birmingham, United Kingdom.As a result, the IRA is declared an unlawful organisation.1975 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Patrick Mackay aka Franklin Bollvolt the First, is sentenced to life imprisonment in London, The Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1975 (x) 24-year-old Mass-murderer Ronald DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, is sentenced to 6 terms of 25 years to life in New York, New York, USA.1979 (+) 9/11 Terrorist Saeed al-Ghamdi is born in al Bahah, Saudi Arabia.1980 (x) 84 Die in MGM hotel fire in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.1985 (x) Twenty-fifth bomb attack by the Terrorist Movement CCC in Brussels, Motorola factory, Brabant, Belgium.1987 (-) Diane Cho is strangled by Timothy Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, at the age of 15 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA.1993 (x) 116 Die in Avio Impek Yak-42 crash in Ohrid, Greece.1993 (-) Actor Bill Bixby dies of prostate cancer at the age of 59 in Century City, California, USA.1997 (-) Mass Murderer Joseph Gautsch commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 36 in Mauterndorf, Austria.Before he killed 6 people in a shooting spree.1997 (x) Artist Barnett Newman 's painting ‘Cathedra’ is attacked by 44-year-old G.J. Van B. in Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands.1997 (-) Murderer Charles Livingston is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Raconteur Quentin Crisp originally Denis Charles Pratt, dies at the age of 90 in Manchester, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, United Kingdom.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

This is the bed where conceptual artist Martin Maloney died, impoverished, ill-infected and alone in his studio in Antwerpen.And I said oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling.And I said oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling.1752 (+) Writer and forger Thomas Chatterton is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.1761 (+) 253rd Pope Pius VIII originally Francesco Xaverio Cappeliari, is born in Cingoli, Italy.1855 (-) John Cook is poisoned by William Palmer aka The Prince of Poisoners, in the United Kingdom.1877 (-) Double Murderer Henry March is executed by hanging in Norwich, United Kingdom.1885 (-) Murderer Thomas Cluverius is executed by hanging in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1889 (+) Astronomer Edwin Hubble is born in Marshfield, Missouri, USA.1894 (-) Louise Marcel is murdered as third victim by Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, at the age of 13 in France.1903 (-) Murderer Tom Horn is executed by hanging at the age of 43 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA.1910 (-) Writer Leonid Tolstoy dies of a lung-infection combined with and exausting fit of hiccuping at the age of 82 in Astapovo, Russia.1924 (+) Timothy Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, is born in Merthyr Vale, Wales, United Kingdom.1925 (+) Politician Robert Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachussets, USA.1931 (+) Process-cult leader Mary DeGrimston is born in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.1934 (x) Mass Murderer Sylvester Matuschka aka The Orient-Express Wrecker, is sentenced to death in Vienna, Austria.1936 (-) Founder of the Fascist Falange, José De Heredia is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 33 in Alicante, Spain.1956 (+) Actress Bo Derek originally Derek Harris, is born in Long Beach, California, USA.1959 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for abduction in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA.1960 (x) 37-year-old Writer Norman Mailer stabs his 37-year-old wife Adele with a penknife in the abdomen and back at a party in their apartment in New York, 250 West 94th Street, New York, USA.1964 (x) 37-year-old Serial Killer Harvey Louis Carignan aka The Want-Ad Killer, is arrested on charges of burglary in Seattle, Washington, USA.1968 (-) Jan Whitney is strangled and a breast cut off by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 23 in Salem, Center Street, Oregon, USA.1974 (x) 59 Die in Lufthansa Boeing 747 crash in Nairobi.1975 (-) Caudillo of Spain Francisco Franco dies at the age of 83 in Madrid, Spain.1978 (-) Artist Giorgio De Chirico dies at the age of 90 in Rome, Italy.1978 (-) Mary Gallagher is strangled by The Bible John Killer at the age of 17 in Springburn, United Kingdom.1990 (x) 54-year-old Serial Killer Andrej Tsjikatilo aka The Rostow Ripper, is arrested in Rostow, Russia.1991 (x) 140 Die in sailboat shipwreck in Cuba.1993 (x) 123 Die in Aviolimpex Yak 42D crash in Ohrid, Macedonia.There was one survivor.1997 (x) Interior minister Jack Straw decides to uphold the ruling made by his predecessor, Michael Howard, that 55-year-old Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, would serve her life sentence, or tariff, in full and die in jail, in London, United Kingdom.Hindley requested a judicial review of her sentence.1998 (-) Double murderer John Noland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2002 (-) Triple murderer William Chappell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Double murderer Robert Henry is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Filmmaker Robert Altman dies of leukemia at the age of 81 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Monday, November 19, 2007

With all the work going on at the Open Air Slaughterhouse we had to secure appropriate storage so we bought four freezers. Apparently the electric system didn't expect a burden like that. Since there are no fuses that can melt, the electric meter just started to melt in YangZhen.498 (-) Pope Anastasius II dies in Rome, Italy.1828 (-) Composer Franz Schubert dies of arthritis due to syphilis at the age of 31 in Vienna, Austria.1831 (+) 20th president of the USA James Abraham Garfield is born in Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA.1858 (-) Murderer William Buse is executed by hanging in Jacinto, Mississippi, USA.1860 (-) Murderer James Mullins is executed by hanging in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.1877 (-) Murderer William Hassel is executed by hanging in Exeter, United Kingdom.1878 (-) Wife-Murderer M’Gowan is executed by hanging in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.1883 (-) Murderer Peter Bray is executed by hanging in Durham Gaol, United Kingdom.1895 (-) Murderer Richard Wingrove is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.1901 (-) Murderer Marcel Faugeron is executed by hanging in Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.1904 (+) Murderer Nathan Leopold aka The Perfect Murderer, is born in Chicago, Kenwood, Illinois, USA.1909 (x) 259 Die in St. Paul’s Company coal-mine explosion in Cherry, Illinois, USA.1915 (-) Radical songwriter, labour leader and supposed murderer Joe Hill originally Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.1917 (+) President Indira Ghandi is born in Anand Bhavan-Allahabad, India.1933 (+) TV-host Larry King originally Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1938 (+) Media tycoon Ted Turner is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.1942 (+) Underwear designer Calvin Klein is born in New York, New York, USA.1948 (-) Child-Murderer Peter Griffiths is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Liverpool, Walton Prison, United Kingdom.1949 (-) Artist James Ensor dies at the age of 89 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium.1954 (x) 28-year-old Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California, USA.1962 (+) Actress Jodie Foster is born in New York, New York, USA.1962 (+) Murderer Farley Matchett is born in Texas, USA.1963 (x) Serial Rapist Ted Paisnel aka The Beast of Jersey, assaults an unidentified 11-year-old boy in Trinity, La Chasse du Diable, Jersey.1971 (x) 25-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Shoot" at F Space in Santa Ana, California, USA.1977 (x) 129 Die in Transportes Aeros Portugueses Boeing 727 crash in Santa Cruz, Portugal.1977 (-) Kristina Weckler is raped, tortured and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 20 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.1984 (x) 544 Die in PEMEX petroleum storage facility explosion in Mexico City, Mexico.Many died in the subsequent fire.1991 (x) 80 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Tehuacan, Mexico.1992 (-) Murderer Jeffrey Griffin is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1993 (x) Over 80 Die in toy-factory fire in Shenzen, Kuiyon, China.1997 (-) Suspected Serial Killer Michael Sharp is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Double Murderer David Brown is executed by lethal injection at the age of 51 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Craig Ogan is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Producer and shaper of Californian Surf Sound Terry Melcher originally Terry Jordan, dies of cancer at the age of 62 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

A lot of fun with french students visiting Art Farm in YangZhen.1307 (x) Legendary hero William Tell shoots an apple of his son Walter's head in Altdorf, Switzerland.1784 (-) Murderer Alexander White is executed by hanging in Long Island, New York, USA.1825 (-) Murderer James Reynolds is executed by hanging in New York, New York, USA.1878 (-) Multiple Murderer Garcia is executed by hanging in Usk Prison, Wales, United Kingdom.1886 (-) 21st president of the USA Chester Alan Arthur dies of cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 57 in NewYork, New York, USA.1922 (-) Writer Marcel Proust dies of pneumonia at the age of 51 in Paris, France.1922 (+) President and dictator Luis Somoza Debayle is born in Nicaragua.1926 (-) Wilhelmina Edmunds is raped and strangled by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 56 in San Francisco, California, USA.1940 (x) Bomb attack by 37-year-old George Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York, New York, USA.1952 (-) Writer Paul Eluard dies at the age of 55 in Paris, France.1952 (+) Murderer Ernest Basden is born in North Carolina, USA.1959 (+) Multiple Murderess Karla Tucker aka The Pick Axe Murderess, is born in Houston, Texas, USA.1962 (-) Physicist Niels Bohr dies at the age of 77 in Copenhagen, Denmark.1966 (-) Automobile manufacterer Jean Peugeot dies at the age of 70 in France.1974 (-) Serial Killer Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, is shot dead by FBI-agent Ron Angel after making a grab for the Sheriff’s gun on transport to a maximum security jail at the age of 28 in Georgia, USA.1976 (-) Artist Man Ray originally Emmanuel Radnitzky, dies at the age of 86 in Paris, France.1977 (-) Tommy Boling is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 21 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1978 (-) Founder of the People’s Temple Reverend Jim Jones commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 47 in Jonestown, Guyana.Earlier that day he ordered his cult-members to drink cyanide-laced juice, killing all 928 present.1978 (-) Mike Inderbieten is emasculated and killed by Randy Kraft aka The Freeway Killer, at the age of 21 in San Diego, California, USA.1997 (-) Yu Besun is shot dead in the course of a robbery by Louis Peoples at the age of 56 in Stockton, Village Oaks Market, California, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Jose Guttierrez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Writer Paul Bowles dies of heart failure at the age of 88 in Tangier, Italian Hospital, Morocco.2002 (-) Actor James Coburn dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 74 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

A note on the wall of the puppet museum in Nantes.1558 (-) Queen Mary Tudor aka Bloody Mary, dies of a malignant growth of the womb at the age of 42 in St. James’s Palace, United Kingdom.1790 (+) Scientist August Möbius is born in Schulpforta, Saxony, Germany.1796 (-) Catharina the Great dies of a stroke at the age of 67 in St. Petersburg, Russia.1887 (+) War leader Bernard Montgomery is born in London, Kennington, United Kingdom.1903 (-) Murderer Edward Palmer is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Devizes, United Kingdom.1905 (+) Queen of Belgium Astrid originally Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra of Sweden, is born in Sweden.1906 (+) Automobile pioneer Soichiro Honda is born in Hamamatsu, Japan.1917 (-) Artist Auguste Rodin dies of pneumonia and fever at the age of 77 in Meudon, France.1925 (+) Actor Rock Hudson originally Roy Scherer, is born in Winnetka, Illinois, USA.1936 (-) Actor John Bowers originally John E Bowersox, commits suicide by drowning at the age of 50 in Malibu, California, USA.1942 (+) Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is born in New York, New York, USA.1944 (+) Actor Danny DeVito is born in Neptune, New Jersey, USA.1950 (x) Mass Murderer Ernesto Ingenito guns down nine members of his family in Mintola, Gloucester County, New Jersey, USA.1950 (x) 15-year-old 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is enthroned as Head of State in Tibet.1954 (x) Start of the trial against 77-year-old presumed murderer of the Drummond family, Gaston Domenici for the Drummond murders in Marseille, France.1958 (-) Olga Kupczyk-Duncan is murdered by 21-year-old LuisMoya and 26-year-old Augustine ‘Gus’ Baldonado, who were hired by Elisabeth Duncan at the age of 29 in the USA.1958 (-) Murderer Arthur Thomas is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 33 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.1968 (-) Murderer Dale Cavaness aka Doc, commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 43 in River Penitentiary, Missouri, USA.He killed his two sons.1973 (x) 12-year-old Teddy Kennedy has his right leg amputated due to bone-cancer in Boston, Massachussets, USA.1974 (x) Serial Killer Paul Knowles aka Killing Time, is arrested after dashing through a police-roadblock in Georgia, USA.1980 (-) Jacqueline Hill is hammered and stabbed with a screwdriver in the lungs and eye as fourteenth victim by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 20 in Leeds, Alma Road, United Kingdom.1981 (-) Sherry Morrow is abducted and shot dead by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 23 in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.1998 (-) Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff aka The Broomstick Murderer, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 52 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Murderer John Lamb is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Murderer Anthony Fuentes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, November 16, 2007

A lightbox by AMVK in an exhibition in Roeselaere.1548 (-) Theologian and church reformer Caspar Cruciger dies at the age of 44 in Wittenberg, Germany.1724 (-) Robber and burglar Jack Sheppard aka Gentleman Jack, dies at the age of 22 in Tyburn, United Kingdom.1849 (x) 28-year-old Writer Fjodor Dostojewski is sentenced to death for anti-government activities in Russia.His execution was canceled at the last minute.1869 (+) Serial Killer Joseph Vacher aka L’Eventreur du Sud-Est, is born in Isère, France.1882 (+) Composer Zoltan Kodaly is born in Kecksemet, Hungary.1895 (+) Composer Paul Hindemuth is born in Hanau, Germany.1895 (+) Actor Jack Dougherty is born in Bowling Green, Missouri, USA.1896 (+) Fascist Leader Oswald Mosley aka The British Führer, is born in Rolleston Hall, Staffordshire, United Kingdom.1906 (x) 33-year-old Musician Enrico Caruso is charged with indecent behaviour for pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of the Central Park Zoo in New York, New York, USA.1907 (x) Oklahoma is called out as 46th of the United States..1930 (-) Sven Eriksson is shot dead and thrown in a frozen lake by Sigvard Thurnemann aka The Doctor, in Norway.1940 (x) First Bomb attack by 37-year-old George Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York, Consolidated Edison Plant, West 64th Street, New York, USA.The device failed to explode.1953 (+) RAF 2nd Generation member Monika Helbing is born in Flein, Germany.1957 (-) Bernice Worden is shot dead, decapitated and dressed out like a deer by Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, at the age of 58 in Plainfield, Wisconsin, 1957 (+) Filmmaker & hairdresser Ross Cannon is born in Tasmania.1960 (-) Actor Clark Gable dies of a heart attack at the age of 59 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1966 (x) 43-year-old Murderer Sam Sheppard is found not guilty of the murder of his pregnant wife Marilyn in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.He had been sentenced to life in prison 12 years earlier.1969 (-) Suzanne Merienne is shot through the head by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 44 in Nogent-sur-Oise, 106 rue Faidherbe, France.1971 (-) Actress Edie Sedgwick dies of acute barbiturate intoxication at the age of 28 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.1976 (x) 35-year-old Murderer Gary Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, attempts to commit suicide in State Prison, Utah, USA.1982 (x) 30-year-old RAF 2nd Generation member Christian Klar is arrested near the RAF arms cache "Daphne" in the Sachsenwald in Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.1984 (x) Baby Fae is the first human being to have a baboon-heart transplanted in the USA.1984 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, is arrested in Tampa, Main Street Cinema, Florida, USA.1989 (x) 29-year-old Serial Killer Richard Ramirez aka The Nightstalker, is transferred from the Los Angeles Central Jail to Death Row in San Quentin, California, USA.1997 (-) Estelle Magd is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, at the age of 25 in Paris, France.1999 (-) Double murderer Desmond Jennings is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Double murderer Shannon Thomas is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

A row of speakers at the CIPAC international conference on professional conditions for visual artists in Nantes.1397 (+) 208th Pope Nicholas V originally Tommaso Parentucelli, is born in Sarzana, Liguria, Italy.1867 (-) Murderer Scott Holderman is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.1887 (+) Artist Georgia O’Keeffe is born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, USA.1887 (-) Murderer Lee Mosier is executed by hanging in Wichita, Kansas, USA.1891 (+) Nazi Leader Erwin Rommel aka The Desert Fox, is born in Heidenheim, Germany.1892 (-) Serial Killer Thomas Neill Cream aka The Strychnine Specialist, is executed by hanging at the age of 42 in Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.On the scaffold he claimed to be Jack The Ripper.1907 (+) Graff Claus von Stauffenberg is born in Jettingen, Germany.1926 (-) Blanche Myers is raped and strangled as ninth victim by Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, at the age of 48 in Portland, Oregon, USA.1928 (+) Serial Killer William Heirens aka Catch Me Before I Kill More, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1930 (+) Writer James G. Ballard is born in Shanghai, China.1932 (+) Musician Petula Clark is born in Ewell, Surrey, United Kingdom.1936 (+) Dissident Wolf Biermann is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.1956 (+) Brian Douglas Wells aka The Human Pizza Delivery Bomb, is born in Pennsylvania, USA.1958 (-) Actor Tyrone Power dies of a heart attack at the age of 44 in Madrid, Spain.He died while dueling on the set of 'Solomon and Sheba'.1959 (x) Herbert Clutter, Bonnie, Nancy and Kenyon are murdered by Mass-murderers Richard Hickock and Perry Edward Smithaka In Cold Blood, in Holcomb, Kansas, USA.1969 (-) Sieglinde Hübner is mutilated and her throat cut by Manfred Wittiman aka The Beast of Oberfranken, at the age of 16 in Kaltenbrunn, Germany.1971 (-) Susie Heppeard is attacked in her own house by Robert Hansen aka The Aviation Hunter, at the age of 18 in Anchorage, Spenard, Alaska, USA.1976 (-) Actor Jean Gabin originally Jean-Alexis Moncorgé, dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.1978 (-) Anthropologist Margaret Mead dies at the age of 76 in New York, New York, USA.1978 (x) 183 Die in DC-8 crash in Colombo, Sri Lanka.1979 (x) 37-year-old Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, mails a bomb to a non-existing address in Chicago, Illinois, USA.The bomb explodes on board of an American Airlines Boeing 727 en route to Washington, 12 people are injured.1979 (x) 46-year-old Serial Killer Donald Gaskins aka Pee Wee, is arrested for contributing to the delinquency of a minor in Sumter, South Carolina, USA.While being held, police started digging up bodies. He claimed to have killed dozens.1985 (-) Artist Meret Oppenheim dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Basel, Switzerland.1985 (x) Professor James McConnel is injured when opening a mail bomb from 43-year-old Theodore Kaczinski aka The UnaBomber, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.1988 (x) Former policeman and 23-year-old Right Wing Spree Killer Barend Strydom aka Wit Wolf, kills seven blacks and wounds fifteen more in a shooting spree in Pretoria, South Africa.1995 (-) Murderer Robert Sidebottom is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Missouri, USA.1996 (-) Actor Alger Hiss dies at the age of 92 in New York, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, USA.2000 (-) Murderer Stacey Lawton is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (-) Murderer Tony Chambers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2001 (-) Murderer Emerson Rudd is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Serial Killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderess, dies of respiratory failure at the age of 60 in West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St. Edmunds, United Kingdom.The infection came due to a suspected heart-attack two weeks earlier. She had also been suffering from angina and osteoporosis.2005 (-) Murderer Robert Rowell is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Fashion model Ana Carolina Reston dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 21 in Hospital Municipal dos Servidores Publicos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

The tower of the Belgian National Broadcast Company in Brussels where I was a guest in a talkshow with Jan Fabre and Jan Hoet. This picture I also used for my "Walk on Pain" collage.1831 (-) Philosopher George Hegel dies of cholera at the age of 61 in Berlin, Germany.1840 (+) Artist Claude Monet is born in Paris, Rue Lafitte, France.1863 (+) Inventor of Bakelite Leo Baekeland is born in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium.1864 (-) Murderer Franz Muller is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Germany.1877 (-) Clement Swanenburg is poisoned by Maria Swanenburg at the age of 3 in Leiden, the Netherlands.1900 (+) Composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1908 (+) Politician and Communist-hunter Joseph McCarthy is born in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.1913 (-) Murderer Oswald Hansel is executed by hanging at the age of 48 in Oregon, USA.1927 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is arrested in Killarney, Canada.1929 (-) Wolfchild Kamala dies of a kidney-infection at the age of 17.1930 (+) President Sese Seko Mobutu originally Joseph Desiré, is born in Lisala, Zaïre.1945 (x) Start of the trial against the Nazi-Leaders in Nurnberg, Germany.1946 (-) Composer Manuel De Falla dies at the age of 70 in Alta Gracia, Argentina.1948 (+) Prince of Wales Philip Arthur George Charles is born in London, Buckingham Palace, United Kingdom.1960 (-) Mass Murderer Robin Cook is executed by hanging at the age of 22 in Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre, Canada.He killed his parents and 5 brothers and sisters.1960 (x) 110 Die in train collision in Pardubice, Czechoslowakia.1966 (x) 15-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, escapes from the Rosendael reformatory and assaults and rapes an unidentified woman in Rijmenam, Brabant, Belgium.1968 (x) 62-year-old Serial Killer Ed Gein aka Psycho, America’s Most Bizarre Murderer, is found guilty of First Degree Murder in Wautoma, Wisconsin, USA.1980 (x) 21-year-old Michel Strée and his brothers Mark and Frank-Roger hi-jack a schoolbus and demand a national TV-broadcast and a discussion with the King about common injustice in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.In the TV-studio they are raided by a special police task-force.1990 (-) Mass Murderer David Graham is shot dead by the police in Aramoana, New Zealand.After running amok with a gun for 22 hours and killing 13 people, almost half the village population.1997 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, is sentenced to death for the rape-murders of 6 women in Chicago, Illinois, USA.He dumped their bodies in the trash near his house.1997 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Daniel Blank is arrested and charged with 6 murders in Onalaska, Texas, USA.2001 (-) Murderer Jeffery Tucker is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Murderer John Daniels is executed by lethal injection at the age of 46 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.2004 (-) Composer Michel Colombier dies at the age of 65 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The picture of the Forbidden City in Beijing I used for my infamous placemat.867 (-) Pope Nicholas I aka the Great, dies at the age of 47 in Italy.1002 (x) 34-year-old King of England Ethelred the Unready orders the death of all Danes in his kingdom in United Kingdom.1635 (-) Thomas Parr aka Old Parr, dies at the age of 152 in Shropshire, United Kingdom.1847 (-) Murderess Maria Manning is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Horsemongers Lane Gaol, United Kingdom.Wearing black satin, she was hanged next to her 28-year-old husband Frederick before a crowd of 50.000.1850 (+) Writer and adventurer Robert Louis Stevenson is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.1868 (-) Composer Gioacchino Rossini dies of pneumonia at the age of 76 in Ruelle, France.1909 (x) 259 Die in St. Paul’s Company coal-mine explosion in Cherry, Illinois, USA.1938 (+) Actress Jean Seberg is born in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA.1949 (+) Actress Whoopi Goldberg is born in New York, New York, USA.1960 (x) 152 Die in movie house fire in Amude, Syria.1964 (+) Serial Killer Hubert Geralds aka The Englewood Rapist, is born in Illinois, USA.1965 (x) 92 Die in Yarmouth Castle steamer fire in the Bahamas.1970 (-) Murderess Maria Groesbeek is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.1970 (-) Carol Hilburn is presumably beaten to death as nineteenth victim by Zodiac in Sacramento, California, USA.1974 (-) Filmmaker Vittorio De Sica dies at the age of 72 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.1974 (-) Anti-Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood is presumably murdered in a sabotaged car-crash at the age of 28 in Crescent, Oklahoma, USA.1974 (x) 43-year-old Ronald Sr., 42-year-old Louise, 18-year-old Dawn, 13-year-old Allison, 12-year-old Mark and 7-year-old John DeFeo are shot dead by their son and brother 23-year-old Mass-murderer Ronald DeFeo Jr. aka The Amityville Horror Murderer, in Amityville, Long Island, Ocean Avenue, High Hopes, New York, USA.1977 (-) Dolores Cepeda is raped and strangled by The Hillside Stranglers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, at the age of 12 in Los Angeles, Glendale, 703 East Colorado Street, California, USA.1986 (-) Kammersänger Rudolf Schock dies of a heart-attack at the age of 71 in Düren, Germany.1997 (-) Murderer Dawud Mu’Min is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.2004 (-) Coil musician John or Jhonn Balance originally Geff Rushton, dies by falling from the first floor landing in his house under the influence of alcohol at the age of 42 in United Kingdom.

Monday, November 12, 2007

"Ich möchte ihnen Nichts von der medizinisch naturwissenschaftlichen seite über Blut erzählen. Darüber wissen sie selbst bei weitem besser Bescheid als ich. Ich versuche aufzuzeigen, was einem Künstler Blut bedeutet bzw. bedeuten kann." (Hermann Nitsch)revamped at the Open Air Slaughterhouse in YangZhen.954 (x) 32-year-old King Lotharius is crowned in France.1833 (+) Composer Alexander Porphiriewitsch Borodin is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.1840 (+) Artist Auguste Rodin is born in Paris, France.1909 (-) Murderer James Finch is executed by hanging at the age of 39 in Oregon, USA.1915 (+) Literary critic Roland Barthes is born in Cherbourg, France.1928 (x) 110 Die in Vestris ocean liner shipwreck in Virginia Capes, 1929 (+) Actress and Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly is born in Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA.1934 (+) Family leader Charles Manson is born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.To unwed Kathleen Maddox.1945 (+) Musician Neil Young is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.1946 (-) Murderer Arthur Boyce is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.1956 (+) Victim of Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, Jean Bernadette Jordan is born in Motherwell, Scotland, United Kingdom.1966 (x) 18-year-old Mass Murderer Robert Smith walks into a beauty parlour and kills 5 women and 2 children in Mesa, Arizona, USA.He wanted to get himself a name.1972 (x) 26-year-old Performance artist Chris Burden performs "Deadman" outside Riko Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles, California, USA.1977 (-) RAF member Ingrid Schubert commits suicide by hanging at the age of 33 in München, Stadelheim Prison, Bavaria, Germany.1978 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 42 in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom.1981 (-) Actor William Holden originally William Beedle, dies at the age of 63 in Santa Monica, California, USA.He fell onto a table intoxicated, gashed his head and bled to death. His body was found four days later.1984 (-) Paule Victor is tortured and killed as eighth victim by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 77 in Paris 11th, 8 rue Jacques Keller, France.1986 (-) Governor of East-Prussia and War criminal Erich Koch dies at the age of 90 in Warsaw Prison, Poland.1991 (-) Murderer Joe Cordova is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1996 (x) 349 Die in Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-168B Flight 763 and Air Kazakhstan Ilyushin II-76 Flight 1907 collision in Charkhi Dadri, India.1997 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Louis Peoples is arrested and charged with shooting four people to death in Stockton, California, USA.1999 (-) Kidnapper and murderer Leroy Drayton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in South Carolina, USA.2001 (x) 265 Die in American Airlines Airbus A300-600 Flight 587 crash in Queens, New York, USA.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

The Great Wall climbing over the edges of the mountains near Badaling.1493 (+) Alchemist Paracelsus originally Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, is born in Eindiedeln, Switzerland.1821 (+) Writer Fjodor Dostojewski is born in Moscow, Russia.1855 (-) Philosopher and theologian Sören Kierkegaard dies of a fainting-spell at the age of 42 in Copenhagen, Denmark.1880 (-) Australia’s Most Famous Desperado, Ned Kelly is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Australia.1885 (+) War leader George Patton aka Old Blood and Guts, is born in San Gabriel, California, USA.1888 (+) Airplane designer Andrej Toepolev is born in Pustomazovo, Russia.1901 (+) Wife of Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels Magda Goebbels originally Johanna Maria Magdalena Behrend, is born in Berlin, Germany.1904 (+) Actor Alger Hiss is born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.1922 (+) Writer Kurt Vonnegut is born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.1938 (-) Cook and healthy Typhoid Fever carrier Mary Mallon aka Typhoid Mary, dies of pneumonia at the age of 69 in New York, New York, USA.Between 1900 and 1907 she infected 53 people of whom 3 died.1972 (-) Lauren Willet is shot dead by The Manson Family at the age of 19 in California, USA.1972 (-) Lori Kursa is abducted and her neck broken as presumed thirty-first victim by Zodiac at the age of 13 in Santa Rosa, U-Save market, California, USA.1973 (x) 24-year-old Serial Killer Ed Kemper aka The Co-ed Killer, is sentenced to 8 life-sentences and sent to the California Medical Facility in Vaccaville, California, USA.1973 (x) The kidnappers of 17-year-old Playboy John Paul Getty III cut off his ear and send it to a newspaper to enforce their demands for ransom in Italy.1973 (-) Valarie Lane is presumably shot dead as fortieth and forty-first victim by Zodiac in Yuba, California, USA.1975 (-) Would-be assassin Richard Paul Pavlick dies at the age of 88 in Manchester, Veterans Administration Hospital, New Hampshire, USA.1976 (-) Artist Alexander Calder dies at the age of 78 in New York, New York, USA.1977 (-) Mary Muldoon is beaten, shot and drowned by Gerald Stano aka Blind Fury, at the age of 23 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA.1980 (-) An unidentified woman is raped, beaten and strangled by David Mason at the age of 72 in California, USA.1982 (x) 33-year-old RAF 2nd Generation member Brigitte Mohnhaupt is arrested in Heusenstamm, Germany.The police had been observing a secret hiding-place in a forest for months.1986 (x) 200 Die in overloaded Oklele shipwreck in La Gonave, Haïti.1989 (-) Frances Browne is beaten and strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers, at the age of 22 in Rochester, Genesee Gorge, New York, USA.2000 (x) 155 Die in cable car fire in Kaprun, Austria.2004 (-) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat originally Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, dies at the age of 75 in Paris, France.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

It's that blood, blood on the wall - in YangZhen.461 (-) 45th Pope Leo I aka Leo the Great, dies at the age of 61 in Rome, Italy.1241 (-) 179th Pope Celestinus IV originally Goffredo da Castiglon, dies in Rome, Italy.He was on the papal throne for just 17 days.1483 (+) Reformer Martin Luther is born in Eisleben, Germany.1549 (-) 220th Pope Paul III originally Alessandro Farnese, dies at the age of 81 in Rome, Italy.1759 (+) Poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist Friedrich von Schiller is born in Marbach-am-Neckar, Baden-Württemburg, Germany.1871 (x) 30-year-old Explorer Sir Henry Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), meets explorer David Livingstone and pronounces the famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume” in Lake Tanganyika, Africa.1891 (-) Writer Arthur Rimbaud dies at the age of 37 in Marseille, France.1904 (+) Victim of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Adolf Hennies is born in Hannover, Germany.1919 (+) President of Katanga Moise Tshombe is born in Musumba, Belgian Congo.1919 (+) Arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov is born in Russia.1923 (+) Actor Richard Burton originally Richard Walter Jenkins, is born in Pontrhydyfen, Wales, United Kingdom.1923 (-) Adolf Hannapel is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 17 in Hannover, Germany.1928 (+) Composer Ennio Morricone is born in Rome, Italy.1932 (+) Actor Roy Scheider is born in Orange, New Jersey, USA.1938 (-) Architect of modern Turkey Kemal Mustafa Ataturk dies at the age of 57 in Istanbul, Turkey.1940 (+) Musician David Sutch aka Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow, is born in United Kingdom.1940 (x) 38-year-old Filmmaker Walt Disney signs an agreement with the FBI to report on subversive activities in Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, USA.1947 (+) President of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is born in Beirut, Lebanon.1960 (-) Murderer Francis Forsythe is executed by hanging at the age of 18 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1960 (-) Murderer Norman Harris is executed by hanging at the age of 21 in London, Pentonville Prison, United Kingdom.1962 (x) 20-year-old Mass murderer Richard Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, is arrested for ‘howling and yelling’ in Major Theatre in Dallas, Texas, USA.1971 (x) 30-year-old Child-rapist and murderer Michel Levinci is arrested in Cicily, Italy.1974 (-) President of Germany’s Superior Court of Justice Judge Günter von Drenkmann is shot dead in his house by the Rote Armee Fraktion / Bewegung 2 Juni as represaille for the death of Holger Meins at the age of 64 in Berlin, Germany.1974 (x) 31-year-old American Hero and mass murderer William Calley is released from prison in the USA.1977 (-) Robert Winch is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 16 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.1980 (-) Douglas Stewart is attacked by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 26 in London, United Kingdom.He survived.1982 (-) Statesman Leonid Breshnev dies of a heart-attack at the age of 75 in Moscow, Russia.1984 (-) Kim Swann is abducted, raped and strangled by Bobby Long aka Bound to Die, at the age of 21 in Tampa, Florida, USA.1993 (-) Murderer Anthony Cook is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2001 (-) Writer Ken Kesey dies of liver cancer at the age of 66 in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, USA.2004 (-) Murderer Frederick McWilliams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Actor Jack Palance originally Volodymyr Palahnyuk, dies of natural causes at the age of 87 in Montecito, California, USA.